> The fundamentalists don't think about it critically.
To me, that's a bit of a tautology. Failing to think critically is the definition of fundamentalism, whether the subject is Christianity, capitalism or programming.
And the Reformation was about allowing literalist asshats to make their own scriptural interpretations without the intervention of elitist scholars and their 'interpretations'.
"Literalist asshats?" I think the Reformation was a rebellion against the kleptocrats of the Vatican, who had figured out how to take advantage of their authority. Human systems seems to often follow a pattern of growing large based on a worldview, concentrating power, being corrupted by those who have the power, then falling apart as a result of a relatively small innovation that obsoletes the original worldview.
The worldview before the Reformation was the "great chain of being," which concentrated power in the Church of Rome, who began took advantage of their power, and whose undoing was the discovery of feedback systems.
And America is populated by the descendants of cultists who left the Old World because their asshat versions of Christianity weren't welcome.
Asshat? Asshat? What is "asshat?"
Nick
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